Really like the idea! Sadly I believe I am having the same scaling issues as the other commenter, but otherwise I love the premise and the giraffe is really cool! It's a nice unique idea
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ShovelJam - This giraffe wants a job: Window washer edition's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #208 | 3.737 | 3.737 |
| Overall | #492 | 3.140 | 3.140 |
| Presentation | #552 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Fun | #582 | 2.684 | 2.684 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Professional Panda
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Nope - I've completed at least one game jam before.
How does your game fit the theme?
So I started with (pun intended) thinking about getting your first job. Then I thought, well what if you're a giraffe and you're disabled because you have super short legs. How difficult would it be then to find a job???
So I found him one, he now holds an official position as a window washer even though he's a bit underqualified. But hey, we all gotta start somewhere right?
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1 year ago(+1)
Thank you for the feedback! I will plan out a little bit more time for polish in the future :)
I would love to hear the extra feedback you have! PS: Is the money in the top-right not visible for you? It might be a scaling issue, I will look into it after the jam! :D
omg yes! I have a 2k monitor (1440p) and I couldn't see those UI!
I'd suggest stuff that could elevate the gameplay more, such as maybe incorperate the giraffe part more and lean into it, such as maybe ragdoll physics or tiny bit of weight for the head to make it feel more like a giraffe, different types of windows, or give the player the controls for the elevator.
These are just some stuff that I think could make the giraffe part more prominent!
Other than the basic stuff such as Music and SFX, especially with games like this, having a squeaky clean noise (the satisfying ones), would be quite nice, and if a window is fully clean, make it shine to communicate to the player that it is fully clean.
There's a lot more you can do! I believe that you can definitely keep improving as long as you keep trying ✨
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you so much! I appreciate all the feedback! I will see what I can implement after the jam :D
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you! Yes I definitely agree sounds are missing. I didn't plan enough time to search them and then figure out a way to add them to the game. Hopefully I will be able to in future jams!
1 year ago(+1)
Oh that makes a lot of sense!! Thank you so much! This is probably also something I can fix post-jam :D
You could consider adding a note to the game page on itch that people can try mobile if they encounter this issue. (by the way, I also do not understand the itch screen sizing thing... I had some issues with my game, but they seem to have disappeared somehow. I made my game in gameMaker and exported as GX.game instead of HTML. this solved the scaling issue for me.)
Aw man I am so sorry to hear that! Thank you for reporting this!
I tried it on Firefox and it doesn't crash for me so I would need to figure out how to take a deeper look at this. Sorry for the inconvenience.
In the meantime, if you want and are able to, you could try to play it on a mobile device? It works fine for me on there too!
oh and thanks for the compliment! :)
1 year ago(+1)
Ohh that makes sense, thank you! I will look into that! I also very much appreciate that you went through all that effort to try it on mobile :)
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